Releases/RelEngChecklist

Doing a release? Here's a list of things you should consider whether or not you need to do. Note that a chemspill requires the same steps as a regular release of the same type. Be sure to take notes on manual steps and any problems you encounter.

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Set reserved_slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Check to make sure you have all of the different types of slaves that you need ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Start the automation ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• E-mail Metrics ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• E-mail Mirrors ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Edit any rsync exclude files ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Sign Android builds ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Reset reserved_slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Push to mirrors ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Push index files to the mirrors ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Run backupsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE ESR}
• Push to external mirrors ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Verify throttling ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Publish Fennec ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Update XULRunner wiki pages ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Update symlinks ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE ESR}
• Remove index files ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Get the Browser Choice website updated ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}